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West Coast Holds Annual Meeting

Tacoma, Washington, January 29.-The West Coast lumber industry carried out its war obligations in 1942 by producing a weekly average of 1.3 per cent more lumber than in 1941, and 20 per cent more than in 194O, Orville R. Miller, president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, said today at the annual meeting of the Association in Tacoma. Mr. Miller pointed out that lumber, unlike most other war industries, was able to accomplish near-capacity production as early as the last quarter of 194O, to supply the enormous first demands of the cantonment program, and that it maintained a production overload through 1941 and most of 1942.

"With no time out for plant cohversions, with no delays for government financing or Federal Defense Plant construction, the West Coast lumber industry was in its stride when war was declared," the Association head stated. "No small part of the success of the war agencies in rapidly reaching a full vi'ar readiness was due to the ability of our industry to meet promptly all requirements for lumber.

"The industry is meeting here with the war agencies of the government for mutual information on the vital problems of supplying the rvar requirements for West Coast lumber in 1943. The industry is prepared for another year of determined effort, despite critical manpower and equipment shortages.

"There has always been lots of wood and as a result it is looked upon as a too commonplace commodity," Mr. Miller said, "but war has again demonstrated its indispensability. The cantonments came first, then the shipyards, ordnance plants, houses for rvorkers, and warehouses; airplanes of all kinds-training ships here, gliders, fighters, bombers and transports here and in England; plywood; pulp and paper, containers and boxes; docks, and now hundreds of wood ships and barges; and the spectacular lighterthan-air ship hangars. Wood is, in all these, doing its part in defending our liberties.

"Despite difficulties too numerous to mention, the industry's record is good to date. I ask that it be kept that way. Keep every ax swinging, keep every 'cat' hauling logs, keep every truck rolling never less than 48 hours per week, and when the days permit, 54 to 60 hours. In total war nothing can be wasted; neither your time, your equipment or your enthusiasm. Keep the logs coming. Keep the saws turning.

"Over and above those 48 to 60 hours of war work we have got to slip in extra hours to think about what we are gqing to do when this war is over," the Association president concluded. "An industry which is doing so much in the war certainly can be prepared to face the obligations of peace with that same determination. I am not suggesting a specific program, but it must include the fields of progressive forestry, research by industry and local institutions in forest products, and constructive work in public relations-all to the end of full employment under private enterprise."

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